St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-06

them. That man with these cOmpla-
cent ideas should have cOndeScended to
be killed in duel concerning woman
seems incOngruOus. For the past twenty
three years the causes that led to La
salle's incOmprehensible actions have
been widely speculated upon; poets
have sung of it, philosophers have sci
entifically explained it, old ladies with
''wintry curlS that twisted like the
spring." have giggled their conclusions,
psychologists have given wild cOnjec-
lures, and a vast circle of diScOnSOlate
damSelS have guessed and wondered
and come nearer than any others to the
truth. Now there comes little volume
from Berlin, published by all anony-
nous author and giving the true inward
ness of the story in the words of the
principal actors. The back is called
'Lasalle'S Leiden' Uasalle's Suffer
ings).
The only copy in this country reached
the Morning journal yesterday. 1t
opens with short biography of its hero.
Ferdinand Lasalle was born April IL,
1925. in the city of BreSlau, of well-tO-do
Jewish parents. When he was nineteen
years of age, and shortly after he ma
circulated at the university, he made his
first plunge in nOtOriety by figuring as
the champion and accepted lover of the
Countess HatZfeldt, woman of twice
his age and several times his experience.
The countess was lady who gave much
attention to the quality of her laundry,
and was en- rapport with all the diver
tisements OF Breslau. Her acquaint-
ance with the aristOcracy was an
extended one, but didn't extend
sufficiently far to embrace the ladies
of the families. She had enjoyed adj
vantageS that years are supposed to pre-
sent, and had permitted none of them
to pass without securing some mental
or tangible profit from them IN their
fight. She gave the aged emberS of her
passion another warming when her
spectacles lighted upon the youthful
Ferdinand, and she managed thereafter,
until the end of his life, to hold him by
her will and in great measure direct
his acts. From her example. if not her
teaching, he probably was induced to
| encouraged i'll such sentiments as this,
shamelessly and publicly expressed by
him:
II can never win a girl by woOing
her; l can't bring myself to that. If a
a woman will take me for what | am,
well and good: and | shall expect her in
return to give herself to me wholly and
confidingly."
LASALLE's AFFINITY.
In May, 1862, Lasalle met Helene Won
Doenniges-the woman who was des-
tined to be the unhappy and unwilling
cause of his death two years later-in
Berlin society. The father of Helene
was diplomat and capitalist, much
the same thing in Europe, and a special
| favorite of MaXimilian of Bavaria.
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professional beauties of Germany,
! statuesque and imperial in figure, heI
form magnificent in its symmetry and
inviting in its proportions. hair of pc
culiar shade in copper. gliStening and
gorgeous as though it were crown SCI
upon a head of patrician mold and car
riage. Young as she was, hardly from
the confines of childhood, she was de.
veloped beyond her years both in mind
| and ply ySique, she had come in direct
contact with fashionable society in hel
extensive travels, she had learned the
world by acute observation and quick
comprehension, and when she net hel
affinity, as Lasalle persuaded her to be
lieve he was, she had acquired the
graces, the ease and confidence of {
grande dame.
Lasalle had just returnen from
Aachen. where his eltravagant atten
tiOnS, as well as twenty-page letter
protesting his love, had been nOncha
lantly declined by a Russian lady OF
distinction. Helene was fresh from
Nizza, where triumphS had been earned
by her beauty and new flowers strewI
before her by infatuoted and blinded
suitors. They were both ripe for cast
of love at first sight; he, the proud. ar
bitrary politician, Snubbed and humili
ated; she, the SensuOus beauty, warn
with the memories and eXcitements o.
salons and cOnquestS.
The love between them was tran
scendental. He found it heroically
affectianate to call e Brunhilde, while
she responded by christening him he
Eagle Considering that they had al
opportunity to meet only three time:
during their stay in Berlin and those
occasions at public entertainments, i
may be conceded that their amOrOu:
his naturally impulsive way of provid
ing for the human race, assumed tha
Helene was intended for him and hin
alone, and lost no time in claiming wha
belonged to him.
Mutual friend Holthoff questioned
Lasalle as to why he did not marry Hell
enc at once, to which this character
istic answer was given: ''No, will not
do that; the girl pleases me, and if
find that her inner beauty is equal to
her bearing and appearance, will. re-
solve to marry her. But can promise
nothing"
This uncertainty of purpose may have
been expressed in his correspondence,
but it was not reflected in his personal
conversations with the object of his af-
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lifted him above the consideration OF
| abOring men and working classes,